[geeks] Renaming en masse

Mike Meredith mike at blackhairy.demon.co.uk
Mon Feb 24 16:11:08 CST 2003


On Monday 24 February 2003 9:48 pm, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> What's a good way to recursively rename an entire directory
> structure? So far, I've done this:
>
> Is there perhaps a simple solution that I'm missing?

You haven't mentioned which Unix you're using, but Linux will normally 
mount a CD with the filenames mapped to lower case. Whilst it's 
cheating, firing up a Linux machine to do the job is probably the 
easiest method.


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